If your
family suddenly watched a stranger enter the house with a manual of new
rules describing how a family should be run, everyone would notice.

Well,
for at least a century, the federal government has been expanding its
power and control over the lives of citizens.

With
each quantum leap, stories and reasons and excuses have been invented
to justify this fungal growth.

Only
a brain-dead observer would fail to recognize that federal government
has vastly exceeded its constitutional limits.

In other
words, not only the shape, but also the KIND of federal power has been
altered. What was once a republic has become a federal monarchy in many
respects.

There
is a potential check on this illegal expansion, and it should come from
our educational system. Students should learn about the principles on
which various types of government are based. What distinguishes socialism,
Communism, fascism, corporate statism, monarchy, a republic, etc.?

This
is basic political science 101.

But
you would be hard pressed to find schools in America where this information
is taught and discussed and debated openly.

You
see, knowledge about First Principles has a funny way of blowing away
all the cover stories and lies and excuses and reasons and baloney.

First
Principles are where the rubber meets the road.

What
was invisible becomes obvious. The stealth paint on the ship of state
is scraped off, and the truth appears.

This
is how a future generation is armed against a secret revolution that has
been taking place.

So...if
you don't want this knowledge to come out in the open, you don't teach
it in schools. You don't devote time to it. You ignore it. You turn out
politically dumb students.

You
keep them in the dark.

You
make them so dumb they don't even know what First Principles are. They
don't know there are basic ideas that separate one kind of government
from another. They don't have the tools to recognize differences.

You
make it politically incorrect to analyze basic forms of governments. You
claim this analysis would be INTOLERANT of how “different people
organize their societies.”

You
say there is no such thing as American education.

And
after ten or 20 consecutive generations of students are kept in the dark,
very few people can understand the basis of the American Republic.

To me,
this is what the home-school movement in America should be all about.
This is why you pull kids out of public schools and teach them at the
kitchen table.

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But
did you know that in some counties, the government will supply home schoolers
with standard text books at no charge to the parents?

This
is a sick joke.

“Okay,
so you don't want us to indoctrinate your kids. Fine. Here are the books
we use to do that. You can have them. Now, you can teach them the same
rubbish we teach them.”

The
parents are now working for the government.

At no
charge.

Since
the beginning of the American Republic, there has been a strong strain
of anti-intellectualism in this society. It has been assumed that, if
people simply take their freedom into their own hands and act on it, everything
will be well.

How
has that worked out?

Like
it or not, there is a philosophy behind freedom, and if you don't understand
it and transmit it to your children, it withers on the tree. It crumbles
as the fungus of government spreads.

This
uncomfortable fact should be the basis of the home-school movement. It
should fire the minds of parents as they sit at the kitchen table with
their children.

In the
early days of home schooling, parents asserted their right to educate
their kids at home, and they faced heavy opposition at all levels of government.
Eventually, they won a great victory. But that freedom—the right
to home school—was only step one. It wasn't the whole revolution.

In exactly
the same way, separating from the British Crown was only the first step
in the American Revolution. There was a greater purpose.

That
purpose has been defaulted on. Over the years, the First Principles of
the American philosophy of freedom have been drained away by a specious
educational system.

It was
always an error to assume that government schools would keep the unique
American philosophy alive.

Is it
now a mistake to believe that home schools will restore this philosophy?

That
question can only be answered by parents who choose to educate their own
children. One way or another, they will answer the question every day.

On January
6th, 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Charles Yancey: “If a nation
expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects
what never was and never will be.”

Remedying
that ignorance involves learning about what freedom is, how it was created
in America, in the late 18th century, how the pillars were built and embodied
in the Constitution, and how those pillars were eroded by other philosophies
and forms of government.

You
can run, but you can't hide.

When
I was 16, our history teacher got sick and missed a few weeks of school.
The substitute was a maverick. He told us he was going to teach us about
Communism. He elucidated its First Principles: elimination of private
property; a dictatorship of the Proletariat; the withering away of the
State. He punched gaping holes in those ideas and let in the light. He
exposed this stealth operation. He compared Marxism with American Republicanism.
He showed us how logic could be twisted to persuade docile minds.

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At first,
I thought he was a weirdo. I'd never met anyone like this man. But gradually,
I came to respect him. I realized he was passing a torch to us. He was
showing us we had minds of our own.

That
was a little scary. But it was bracing, like a blast of fresh air coming
in the windows.

Jon
Rappoport has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years. Nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize early in his career, Jon has published articles on
medical fraud, politics, alternative health, and sports in LA Weekly,
CBS Healthwatch, Spin, Stern, and other magazines and newspapers in the
US and Europe.

He
is the is author of several books, including The Secret Behind Secret
Societies and The Magic Agent (a novel).

Jon
is the author of a new course for home schoolers, LOGIC AND ANALYSIS.